diff --git a/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/android_widget_ImageView.c b/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/android_widget_ImageView.c
index 7f2d4ae2..efd41795 100644
--- a/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/android_widget_ImageView.c
+++ b/src/api-impl-jni/widgets/android_widget_ImageView.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 JNIEXPORT jlong JNICALL Java_android_widget_ImageView_native_1constructor(JNIEnv *env, jobject this, jobject context, jobject attrs)
 {
 	GtkWidget *wrapper = g_object_ref(wrapper_widget_new());
-	GtkWidget *image = gtk_picture_new_for_resource("/org/gtk/libgtk/icons/16x16/status/image-missing.png"); // show "broken image" icon
+	GtkWidget *image = gtk_picture_new();
 	wrapper_widget_set_child(WRAPPER_WIDGET(wrapper), image);
 	wrapper_widget_set_jobject(WRAPPER_WIDGET(wrapper), env, this);
 	return _INTPTR(image);